The single long session of most high schools, though most convenient for many reasons, is likely to impose too long and severe a strain on the boy or girl, especially if there is no appetite for a hearty breakfast. Many persons can never advantageously eat dinner early in the morning and it is folly to attempt to enforce such a regimen. A sensible plan would be to arrange the high school instruction so that no pupil would be required to attend more than four consecutive periods. Otherwise, a long enough recess should be allowed for a light lunch in the middle of the morning.

Insufficient, hasty breakfasts and reliance on coffee, are often due to late hours in the evening, either on the part of the pupil or of the family generally, so that breakfast is not served at an hour suitable for him.

Social dissipation of high school pupils should be limited to Friday and Saturday evenings, during school sessions.

During the menstrual flow, girls should be excused - com-pulsorily, if need be - from school attendance, if there is any abnormality.

During the high school period, the mid-day meal should continue to be the main one, although, by proper choice of food, this need not interfere with the customary arrangement of luncheon and evening dinner for the family generally.

At about this time, the question of the allowance of tea, coffee, tobacco etc., is apt to arise. While abstinence is theoretically desirable, even for the adult, it is almost imperative for the adolescent if health is to be maintained. Weak cocoa affords an excellent substitute for tea and coffee. It should be impressed on the boy or girl that there are purely physical conditions during the period of growth, as well as differences in the business and social demands upon the adolescent and the adult, which render abstinence necessary in the former, and indulgence comparatively harmless in the latter. If the appeal to judgment based on these grounds, is not sufficient, parental discipline may be necessary and it is even worth considering whether the health of the youth is not worth the argument of example as well as precept. The prejudice against cigarettes, as compared with stronger forms of tobacco, is due almost entirely to their premature use by boys too young to tolerate tobacco in other forms.

Abstinence from alcoholic beverages should be insisted on until full adult age is reached.